[basch]

>Only America uses the (nonsensical) MM-DD-YYYY system.

It makes more sense as MMDD-YYYY or (MM-DD)-YYYY. The Month-Day is a single thing, there are 365 of them in a year, in a roughly base 30 counting system. The year can often be left off when colloquially referring to a date (3/14 or 0314 for example.)

[gls2ro]

Just trying to reason here:

I think it makes more sense to have DD/MM as the day is the thing that changes more often and thus DDMM starts with the most important information first.

Also if I think I never encountered someone looking at their digital watch to know what Month is. But always people check phones/watches to know what day is. So why would these systems start with the less important information for the user?

[basch]

Do you put minutes before hours when you tell time?

Day before month creates some ambiguity regarding if you’re talking about the near past or near future.

If you consider MMDD a single unit, it doesn’t make sense to represent it backwards. You need to be able to tell that 0402 is a bigger base iterarion than 0302. If it’s DDMM 0203 and 0204 don’t appear to be an entire base count apart.

[gls2ro]

I agree we disagree, here is why:

I am talking about what makes sense for people. And most of the people look at the calendar to know what day is today.

Regarding time, if you are asking me I will put minutes before hours in our era where every minute counts.

But before this speedy times, people where mostly concerned with hours.